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Events on This Day
1821 - Samuel Rust of New York City patented the first practical printing press built in the U.S.1873 - Ludwig M. Wolf of Avon, CT patented the sewing machine lampholder. Up to that time, those who could afford it had hired pygmies from their local Lampholders-R-Us company to hold their sewing machine lamps. Those who could not afford that service had to sew with one hand while holding the lamp with the other. Certainly not convenient.
1918 - The first airmail postage stamps were issued in 24-cent denominations. The 6- and 16-cent versions were issued later in the year.
1938 - Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans jazz standard, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
1940 - After being chosen to head England’s wartime coalition, Winston Churchill told parliament that he could offer “nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
1947 - The Taft-Hartley Act was passed by the U.S. Senate. The law was intended to control the power of labor unions.
1949 - The first gas turbine to pump natural gas was installed in Wilmar, AR. Please don’t forget. There will be a pop quiz later...
1950 - The Diner’s Club issued its first credit card. It later became the first multi-use charge card in the world.
1954 - The Pajama Game made its debut on Broadway in New York City at the St. James Theatre. Harold Prince produced The Pajama Game, his first Broadway endeavor. The show ran for 1,063 performances. John Raitt and Janis Paige starred in the leading roles. Carol Haney came to national fame for her rendition of the song, Steam Heat. The movie version also starred Raitt -- along with Doris Day.
1955 - Elvis Presley’s performance in Jacksonville, Florida caused a riot. Young women and teenagers went wild over the pelvic-thrusting Presley, especially after he finished the show by saying, “Girls, I’ll see you backstage.”
1957 - Actress Jean Peters married millionaire Howard Hughes in Tonopah, NV.
1958 - Stan ‘The Man’ Musial whacked hit #3000.
1958 - U.S. Vice President Nixon’s limousine was hit by rocks thrown by demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
1961 - Actor Gary Cooper died in Hollywood (of cancer). He was 60 year old. Cooper was considered the epitome of ‘the strong silent type’. He is remembered his Academy Award-winning performances in Sergeant York and High Noon. Other Cooper favorites include A Farewell to Arms, Beau Geste, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, Pride of the Yankees, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Friendly Persuasion.
1962 - Franz Kline, American painter of abstract expressionist style, died of a heart attack in New York City, one week short of his 52nd birthday. Kline was known for dramatic, easy-to-recognize pictures of big black slashes against snowy backgrounds.
1968 - Peace talks opened in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam. The war ended in 1973.
1971 - Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul’, received a gold record for her version of Bridge over Troubled Water, originally a Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel tune.
1973 - Tennis star Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court in a televised tennis match that was seen worldwide. Later that year, the outrageous tennis hustler didn’t fare so well against women’s tennis champion, Billie Jean King, in a much-hyped match at the Houston Astrodome. He lost, but helped bring women’s tennis to the forefront as a competitive sport with a growing legion of fans.
1975 - Bob Wills, originator of the western swing style of country music, died. He was 70 years old and had suffering a stroke in December 1973. Wills and his Texas Playboys played country ballads, blues and jazz tunes. His composition of San Antonio Rose was a million seller in 1940.
1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. The shots hit the pope’s hand and penetrated his abdomen.
1985 - Tony Perez became the oldest major-league baseball player to hit a grand slam home run. Perez hit the grand slam for the Cincinnati Reds -- helping the Reds to a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros. Perez was just a month shy of his 43rd birthday when he connected for the big dinger...
1985 - ‘The Boss’, Bruce Springsteen, married actress/model Julianne Phillips in ceremonies in Lake Oswego, OR. The couple went their separate ways in 1989. Springsteen’s hit, I’m on Fire, was in the top ten when the couple tied the wedding knot. Springsteen remarried in June of 1991, this time to a member of his E Street Band, Patti Scialfa. Despite his popularity, Springsteen has never had a number one song. His closest to the top of the pop music charts was a four-week stay at number two with Dancing in the Dark (June/July, 1984). Springsteen has had 11 hits in the top ten.
1985 - The city of Philadelphia bombed one of its own neighborhoods. 11 people died when a police helicopter bombed the fortified house of a radical group called MOVE to end a 24-hour siege. The ensuing fire destroyed 61 row houses, including MOVE’s, and left 250 people homeless. Five of the eleven killed were children.
1989 - Some 2,000 students began a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
1991 - Apple released Macintosh System 7.0.
1991 - South African black activist Winnie Mandela and two co-defendants were convicted of abducting four young black men and keeping them at her Soweto home. Mrs. Mandela was sentenced to six years in prison. (On appeal, the sentence was reduced to a fine.)
1992 - Astronauts Pierre Thout, Tom Akers, and Richard Hieb made history when they grabbed the wayward 4-ton Intelsat-Six communications satellite. Also on board the shuttle Endeavor during the flight of STS-49 was the Kathy Thornton, the first mother to walk in space.
1994 - President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Breyer was sworn in Aug 3, 1994.
1995 - The soundtrack album from the movie, Friday, was #1 in the U.S. Produced by rap star, Ice Cube, the album stayed at the top for two weeks. In 2000, Ice Cube produced a sequel and album named Next Friday and, in 2002, you guessed it, Friday After Next...
1997 - Prosecutors at the Oklahoma City bombing trial (in Denver) showed jurors the key to the rented Ryder truck used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. They said Timothy McVeigh left the key behind in the same alley in which he stashed his getaway car.
1999 - Meg Greenfield, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist, died in Washington, DC. She was 68 years old.
2000 - Explosions at a fireworks warehouse in the Netherlands killed 22 people and injured nearly one-thousand others.
2001 - Actor and playwright Jason Miller died at 62 years of age in Scranton, PA.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would sign a treaty to shrink the nuclear arsenals of their countries -- by two-thirds.
2003 - The U.S. government unveiled a new $20 bill with color added to help thwart counterfeiters. $130 million of counterfeit U.S. money was estimated to be circulating globally. It began circulating in October.
2004 - The last episode of Frasier aired on NBC-TV following its eleven-year run.
2004 - The SpaceShipOne rocket climbed to 211,400 feet. It was the first privately funded vehicle to reach the edge of space.
2005 - New films in U.S theatres: Kicking and Screaming, starring Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Mike Ditka, Kate Walsh, Jim Turner and Jarrad Paul; Mindhunters, with Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey, Will Kemp, Jonny Lee Miller, Clifton Collins Jr., Kathryn Morris and Patricia Velazquez; Monster-in-Law, starring Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Wanda Skyes, Michael Vartan and Adam Scott; and Unleashed, with Morgan Freeman, Jet Li, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon, Christian Gazio and Silvio Simac.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI appointed San Francisco Archbishop William Levada (68) to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Levad thus became the Vatican’s top judge regarding questions of faith and morals.
2007 - A Jamaican newspaper reported that Scotland Yard investigators had concluded that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of natural causes and was not strangled as local police had speculated.
2008 - Australian banks St. George and Westpac Banking Corp. agreed to merge, creating the nation’s biggest financial services group -- worth around 66 billion dollars (62 billion US).
2009 - Following an eight-year investigation, the European Commission fined Intel Corp €1.06 billion ($1.45 billion) and ordered it to halt illegal rebates and other practices used to squeeze out its rival, AMD.
2009 - Russian news agencies reported an agreement between Russia and the U.S. to charge U.S. astronauts $51 million per return trip to the International Space Station from 2012 on. NASA must use the Russian Soyuz capsule because its own Space Shuttle was to be retired in 2010 after nearly three decades in service and a replacement was not due until 2014 at the earliest.
2010 - The Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott Arizona businesses, making it the largest city to take such action to protest the Arizona’s tough new law targeting illegal immigration.
2011 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Bridesmaids, with Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Jessica St. Clair, Maya Rudolph, Tom Yi and Elaine Kao; Priest, with Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins and Brad Dourif; The Big Bang, starring Antonio Banderas, Thomas Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Sienna Guillory and Delroy Lindo; the documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff; Everything Must Go, starring Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern, Stephen Root and Michael Peña; and The First Grader, with Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Sam Feuer, Nick Reding, Oliver Litondo and Vusi Kunene.
2011 - Japan announced a plan to help Tokyo Electric Power compensate victims of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant without going broke. This, while it contued to try to resolve the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
2012 - A Panamanian man who watched his two companions die while surviving at sea for 28 days in their small disabled boat sued a U.S. cruise line because one of its ships failed to help. The lawsuit alleged negligence by Princess Cruise Lines on behalf of Adrian Vazquez. The 18-year-old Vazquez and companions set off for a night of fishing on Feb 24 from Rio Hato, a small fishing and farming town on the Pacific coast of Panama. The boat’s motor broke down on the way back and the men drifted at sea for 16 days before seeing a cruise ship approach March 10. Vazquez has said the men signaled for help, but the ship did not stop. Princess Cruises said passengers never told the ship’s captain they saw a boat. But the lawsuit included testimony from two cruise ship passengers who said they saw the disabled boat and reported it to a cruise representative on the Star Princess
2013 - President Obama welcomed British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House, where the two leaders discussed issues ranging from economic development to the conflict in Syria. While on his way to Washington, Cameron had rebuked lawmakers in his Conservative Party who had decided that Britain should withdraw from the European Union.
2014 - Europe’s highest court said people should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a Google search of their own name. The ruling would force Google -- and other search engines -- to delete references to old debts, long-ago arrests and other unflattering personal episodes. Debates over the “right to be forgotten” surfaced across the world as Internet users struggled to reconcile the forgive-and-forget nature of human relations with the unforgiving permanence of the Internet.
2016 - Japan-based Honda said it was recalling millions more cars equipped with airbags made by supplier Takata. This, in a widening of what had already become the biggest auto recall in U.S. history.
2018 - Deaths on this day included: American guitarist and composer Glenn Branca in Manhattan. Branca blended classical, rock and avant-garde elements in his compositions that included Symphony No. 16 (Orgasm). And Margot Kidder, the Canadian actress who starred as Lois Lane opposite Steve Reeves in four Superman films. Kidder died at her home in Livingston, Montana.
2018 - China’s first entirely home-built aircraft carrier began sea trials. The new ship was a big example of the growing sophistication of China’s domestic arms industry.
2019 - Doris Day, actress, singer, and animal welfare activist, died in Carmel Valley Village, CA. She was 97 years old. Her 39 feature films include Romance on the High Seas (1948), Calamity Jane (1953), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Pillow Talk (1959) and The Thrill of It All (1963). Day (Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff) began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, Sentimental Journey and My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Day became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s, and as of 2012 was one of eight performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times.
2019 - Actress Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy for her role in a test-fixing and bribery scheme to inflate her daughters SAT score.
2020 - In a court filing, the FBI revealed the identity of a mysterious Saudi Embassy official in Washington who agents suspected had directed crucial support to two of the9/11 al-Qaida hijackers. The Saudi diplomat, Musaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, was an almost anonymous figure whose possible connections to the 9/11 plot were never solidly confirmed, several officials said, and were only a passing focus of the FBI’s long-running inquiry into the Saudi role. “Our government has been fighting us tooth and nail to prevent the release of this name, and now — lo and behold — we know his name,” said a spokesman for the 9/11 families, Brett Eagleson. “What about this is a state secret? Why would our government go to such lengths to protect this guy? This proves it’s a giant cover-up to protect the Saudis.”
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)Paul Manafort (71), Donald Trump’s onetime presidential campaign chairman who was convicted as part of the special counsel’s Russia investigation, was released from federal prison to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement due to concerns about the coronavirus.
2)British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the deaths of 144 health care workers and 131 social care workers had been reported as involving COVID-19. The United Kingdom’s total COVID-19 death toll exceeded 40,000, by far the worst yet reported in Europe.
3)Authorities in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus emerged, launched an ambitious campaign to test all of its 11 million residents, after a cluster of new cases raised fears of a second wave of infections.
4)Moscow said it had ascribed the deaths of more than 60% of coronavirus patients in April 2000 to other causes as it defended what it said was the superior way it and Russia counted the number of people killed by the virus. The disparity between Russia’s high number of cases and the relatively low number of deaths had prompted Kremlin critics to question the veracity of Russia’s official death statistics.2021 - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said ransom should not be paid by companies that were victims of cyber attacks. She was referring to the attack suffered by Colonial Pipeline -- and that Colonial Pipeline had paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers following that cyberattack.
2021 - Amazon.com Inc announced plans to employ 75,000 workers for fulfillment and logistics operations. And the company said it would give $100 more to new hires with proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
2022 - The International Energy Agency said the world would not be left short of oil even with lower output from sanctions-hit Russia. It was an IEA U-turn since it had predicted a “global supply shock” in March.
2022 - Finland announced its intention to join NATO “without delay.” This, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looked like it was bringing about the very expansion of the Western military alliance that Vladimir Putin was hoping to prevent.
2023 - The world’s largest iceberg ‘A-76’ at 1,667-square-miles (4,320 square km) broke off from the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
2023 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, saying it was a great honor to meet with the pontiff. The Pope had previously offered to do what he could to try to end the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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Birthdays on This Day May 13
1842 - Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan
operetta composer [w/Sir William Gilbert]: H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance; died Nov 22, 19001909 - Ken Darby
songwriter, composer: How the West Was Won, Make Mine Music, The Chool Song, Love Song of Kalua, Saga of the Ponderosa, Ports of Paradise; died Jan 24, 19921911 - Robert Middleton (Samuel Messer)
actor: Harrad Experiment, The Law and Jake Wade, Court Jester, Desperate Hours, Career; died June 14, 19771911 - Maxine Sullivan (Marietta Williams)
singer: Loch Lomand, Cockles and Mussels, If I Had a Ribbon Bow; films & stage: Goin’ Places, St. Louis Blues, Swingin’ the Dream, Midsummer Night’s Dream [w/Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman]; died Apr 7, 19871914 - Johnny ‘Johnnie’ Wright (born Johnnie Robert Wright Jr.}
country singer: duo: Johnnie and Jack: Poison Love, Crying Heart Blues; solo: Hello Vietnam; married to singer Kitty Wells since 1937; Wright changed the spelling of his name from Johnnie [to Johnny] after it was misprinted on a record, then began a solo career with Hello Vietnam; died Sep 27, 20111914 - Joe Louis (Barrow)
‘The Brown Bomber’: boxer: world heavyweight champion [1937-1949]; died Apr 12, 19811922 - Bea (Beatrice) Arthur (Bernice Frankel)
actress: The Golden Girls, Maude, Mame; died Apr 25, 20091925 - Herbert Ross
director: True Colors, My Blue Heaven, Steel Magnolias, Dancers, Footloose, Pennies from Heaven, California Suite, The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys, Funny Lady, The Owl and the Pussycat; actor, director: Play It Again, Sam, Goodbye, Mr. Chips; died Oct 9, 20011927 - Fred Hellerman
musician: guitar; singer: group: The Weavers: Goodnight, Irene, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, On Top of Old Smoky, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Wimoweh, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Rock Island Line, The Midnight Special, Pay Me My Money Down, Darling Corey; died Sep 1, 20161933 - Johnny (John Junior) Roseboro
baseball: catcher: Brooklyn Dodgers, LA Dodgers [all-star: 1958, 1961, 1962/World Series: 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966], Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1969], Washington Senators; died Aug 16, 20021935 - Teddy Randazzo
songwriter, producer: Goin’ Out of My Head, Hurt So Bad, I’m on the Outside [Looking In]; singer: Way of a Clown; actor: Rock, Rock, Rock, Mister Rock and Roll, Hey, Let’s Twist; died Nov 21, 20031937 - Zohra Lampert
actress: Alan & Naomi, Splendor in the Grass1938 - Anna Cropper
actress: Castles, September, Prisoners in Time, The Marshal, A New Lease of Death, Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, Nemesis; died Jan 22, 20071939 - Harvey Keitel
actor: Smoke, Pulp Fiction, Rising Sun, The Piano, Sister Act, Thelma and Louise, Bugsy, The Two Jakes, The Last Temptation of Christ, Death Watch, Blue Collar, Taxi Driver, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Shining Star, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Mean Streets, Holy Smoke, U-5711941 - Senta Berger
actress: The Victors, See How They Run, The Quiller Memorandum, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium1941 - Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela)
singer: Donna, La Bamba; film biography: La Bamba; killed in plane crash Feb 3, 19591943 - Mary Wells
singer: My Guy, Two Lovers, You Beat Me to the Punch, The One Who Really Loves You; died July 26, 19921945 - Sam Anderson
actor: Perfect Strangers, Angel, ER, Lost, Dirty Habit, Secret Santa, Stackers, The Independent, Sonic Impact, After the Game, The Puppet Masters1945 - Magic Dick
musician: harmonica: group: J. Geils Band: Ain’t Nothin’ But a House Party, Detroit Breakdown, Whammer Jammer, Southside Shuffle, Give It to Me, Where Did My Heart Go?1946 - Mike Chernoff
hockey: NHL: Minnesota North Stars1946 - Danny Klein
musician: bass: group: The J. Geils Band: Give It to Me, Must Have Got Lost, One Last Kiss, Freeze-Frame, Centerfold, Angel in Blue, Land of a 1000 Dances; more1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith
actor: The Jewel in the Crown, Remains of the Day; died Apr 7, 20171947 - (Pete) Overend Watts
musician: bass: group: Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes, Ballad of Mott, All the Way to Memphis, Saturday Gigs; died Jan 22, 20171949 - Franklyn Ajaye
actor: The Wrong Guys, Fraternity Vacation, The Jazz Singer, Convoy, Car Wash, Keep on Truckin’1949 - Zoë Wanamaker
actress: Royal Shakespeare Company; films/TV: Harry Potter film series, My Family, Agatha Christie’s Poirot; more1950 - Joe Johnston
actor: Captain America: The First Avenger, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji, Jurassic Park III, The Rocketeer, October Sky, The Wolfman1950 - Danny Kirwan
musician: guitar, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop, Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Black Magic Woman, Sentimental Lady, Rumors; died Jun 8, 20181950 - Bobby Valentine
baseball: manager: Texas Rangers, NY Mets1950 - Stevie Wonder
singer: Fingertips, My Cherie Amour, For Once in My Life, Tears of a Clown, If You Really Love Me, co-wrote I was Made to Love Her; Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards; an Oscar for I Just Called to Say I Love You [from The Woman in Red: 1984]; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1989]; has stood up for civil rights, campaigns against cancer, AIDS, drunk driving and the plight of Ethiopians
1951 - Paul Thompson
musician: drums: group: Roxy Music: Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama, Do the Strand, Editions of You, In Every Dream a Heartache, Street Life, All I Want is You, Out of the Blue1952 - John Kasich
politician: U.S. House of Representatives; 69th Governor of Ohio [2011-2019]; candidate for 2016 Republican nomination for President of the U.S.1957 - Alan Ball
screenwriter: American Beauty, True Blood, Grace Under Fire, Six Feet Under, Towelhead1958 - Frances Barber
actress: A Zed & Two Noughts, We Think the World of You, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Home Sweet Home1960 - Julianne Phillips
actress: Sisters, Allie & Me, Big Bully, The Only Way Out, Fletch Lives, Odd Jobs, Jealousy1961 - Dennis Rodman
‘The Worm’: basketball: Chicago Bulls; actor: Double Team, S.O.F. Special Ops Force, Simon Sez1964 - Stephen Colbert
actor, producer, writer, TV host: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; satirist: The Colbert Report; comedian: The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live1964 - Ronnie Coleman
bodybuilder: Mr. Olympia bodybuilding title for eight years in a row [1998-2005]1964 - Lorraine McIntosh
singer: group: Deacon Blue: Dignity, Real Gone Kid, Raintown, Twist And Shout, Your Town, Love And Regret1965 - Lari White
singer: Itty Bitty Little Single Solitary Piece O’ My Heart, Lay Around and Love on You, Lead Me Not, What a Woman Wants, Wild at Heart1966 - Darius Rucker
lead singer, founder of Hootie & the Blowfish: Hold My Hand, Let Her Cry, Only Wanna Be with You, Old Man & Me [When I Get To Heaven]; solo: Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It, It Won’t Be Like This for Long, Alright, Come Back Song, This; more1967 - Tommy Gunn (Thomas Joseph Strada)
actor [2004-2013]: X-rated films: Pirates, Cummin’ at You 3D, Swallow the Leader, Indecent Radio, Operation: Desert Stormy1971 - Tom Nalen
football [center]: Boston College; NFL: Denver Broncos1975 - Jamie Allison
hockey: Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Nashville Predators, Florida Panthers, Ottawa Senators1975 - Jack Cressend
baseball [pitcher]: Tulane Univ; Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox1975 - Brian Geraghty
actor: The Hurt Locker, Flight, The Sopranos, Jarhead, The Guardian, We Are Marshall, Bobby, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1976 - Jamie Wright
hockey [left wing]: Dallas Stars, Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers1977 - Neil Hopkins
actor: Lost, Big Love, Crash, My Name Is Earl, The Ghost Whisperer, CSI:NY, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Nip/Tuck, Skyline, How My Dad Killed Dracula, Hit Factor, Distrust, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1977 - Samantha Morton
actress: River Queen, Enduring Love, In America, Minority Report, Pandaemonium, Jesus’ Son, Emma, Sweet and Lowdown1978 - Mike Bibby
basketball [guard]: Univ of Arizona; NBA: Vancovuer Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings
1978 - Barry Zito
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Southern California; MLB: Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants1979 - Mickey Madden
musician: bass: group: Maroon 5: She Will Be Loved1979 - Lauren Phoenix
actress [2003-2009]: X-rated films: Black in the Saddle, Love Sucks and Then You Die, Desperate Mothers & Wives 2, Puff Puff Give, More Bang for the Buckxxx, Mad MILF Money1981 - Sunny Leone
actress [2005-2013]: X-rated films: Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade, Debbie Does Dallas... Again, Descent Into Bondage, Hocus Pocus XXX, Sunny Leone: Erotica1983 - Natalie Cassidy
actress: EastEnders, Psychoville, London1984 - Dawn Harper-Nelson
hurdler: gold medalist: 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Olympics; silver at the 2012 Olympics1985 - Iwan Rheon
actor: Game of Thrones, Vicious, Our Girl, Misfits, Charlotte’s Song, SUM11986 - Lena Dunham
actress: Girls, Tiny Furniture, Happy Christmas, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, American Horror Story: Cult1986 - Robert Pattinson
actor: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Twilight, Remember Me, The Summer House1987 - Candice King
actress: The Vampire Diaries, Dating Rules from My Future Self, Hannah Montana: The Movie, The Truth About Angels, How I Met Your Mother1987 - Hunter Parrish
actor: Weeds, The Good Wife, A Rising Tide, The Runaround; Broadway: Godspell, Spring Awakening1989 - P.K. Subban
hockey: defender: NHL: Montreal Canadiens [2009-2016]; Nashville Predators [2016-2019]: 2017 Stanley Cup finals; New Jersey Devils [2019-2022]; ESPN NHL analyst]1993 - Morgan Wallen
songwriter, singer: Up Down, Whiskey Glasses, Chasin’ You, 7 Summers, Sand in My Boots, Wasted on You, You Proof, Thought You Should Know, Last Night, One Thing at a Time
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Hit Music on This Day May 13
1950My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
It Isn’t Fair (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
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